Inch Street

I have a natural bias to think the worst places have the most potential, I’m a born renovator. Inch Street is without doubt one…

Airly

Airly village on Mt Airly in the Capertee Valley is another abandoned shale oil mining village from the late nineteenth century. The pagodas on…

Lidsdale House Garden

The garden surrounding Lidsdale House was designed by Paul Sorensen. It is lush and manicured. But the 1940s extensions to the house are in…

Walker Barton Cemetery

Lake Wallace was created in 1978 to supply cooling water to Wallerawang power station. The Walker Barton Cemetery on the north side of the…

Long Swamp Road

I never knew the peculiar stone formations that surrounded me as a child were called pagodas, as if they were buddhist temples. Buddhist literature,…